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SubjectRe: No kernel oops?

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > The virgo_s has "base" as its first element.
> > >
> > > Anybody know why I didn't see an oops?
> >
> > what was the value of 'reg' ? I guess if the memory location is bigger
> > than 4096 then the bug wont get noticed by zero page.
>
> Boot the kernel with mem=nopentium when doing random memory accident tests

ahh, it was 2.0 right? On 2.1 we have 0xc0000000 mapped to get the
physical memory, so we have a proper zero-page.

laugh now i see why the kernel tracer doesnt work on 2.0 ... i'm relying
on a properly working *(char *)0=0 a few times there ;)

-- mingo


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